FreudianSlippers posted:I've never understood vegans who don't eat insects seeing as insects are probably not any more sentient than any plant let alone fungi who are probably twice as sentient as any species of insects. From what I've understood, there's no definite answer as to whether insects are sentient or not (as said, how do you measure that?) but considering the neural complexity of insects there's a possibility of them being so, and as such it might not be worth taking the risk with insect-based food. With fungus, the same argument is harder to make because the type of sentience would need to be very unusual/unlike what we usually consider. Obviously that doesn't mean that fungal colonies aren't sentient, just that statistically insects could be considered to have a higher likelihood for that. EDIT: Have a mildly interesting wooden ball:
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Hempuli posted:
That's a cool knotahedron.
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 02:24 |
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Bees have language, know to count and use tools https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rc0xv2TRRa1x0rpl7.mp4
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 03:11 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:How would we even evaluate it? Fungi are closer to animals than plants, but if they are having deep thoughts we haven't been able to observe it. That's reminding me of an X-Files episode
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 03:48 |
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Is a colony of ants more sentient than a single ant, I wonder?
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 04:28 |
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Hyperlynx posted:Juffo-wup fills in my fibres and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues. Reading this made me a *Happy Camper*.
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 05:40 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:Eating root vegetable isn't vegan because harvesting them causes harm to insects in the soil. The former is obviously easier to explain and works a bit better when you don't have a Jainist view of botany and I'd even encourage it if you aren't a vegetarian because the comparative sort of suffering minimization Just Makes Sense even coming in with a need to eat meat.
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 13:44 |
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Beachcomber posted:Reading this made me a *Happy Camper*. Frungy 4ever
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 15:22 |
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:That's reminding me of an X-Files episode Firewalker was a good episode that was on the VHS tape that I recorded Jose Chung's... on so I watched it a lot. The fungus stalks shooting out of people's necks was a creepy effect. Another episode where many of the one-off cast would end up on TV and movie screens a lot.
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 17:57 |
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I'm assuming they are referring to the later season episode where a giant fungus causes people to hallucinate while it dissolves them.
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 18:05 |
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Correct!
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 18:41 |
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I can't believe the X-Files did two episodes about giant fungus monsters
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 18:43 |
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Philippe posted:I can't believe the X-Files did two episodes about giant fungus monsters You forgot to turn your TV on, twice.
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 18:52 |
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Philippe posted:I can't believe the X-Files did two episodes about giant fungus monsters It's one of the reasons Joe rogan didn't care for it
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 18:57 |
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Don't touch me, I'm scared. https://twitter.com/montachun/status/1421064323003084807 https://twitter.com/wasabi_imoimo/status/1429587444442177536
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-Zydeco- posted:Don't touch me, I'm scared. https://youtu.be/3ExGuHWdXCE
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# ? Jun 26, 2022 20:13 |
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No pic but imagine a Smurf in overalls. The Kentucky Blue People
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# ? Jun 27, 2022 13:04 |
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-Zydeco- posted:Don't touch me, I'm scared. Slug with eyestalk parasites? hosed up caterpillar? I hate it.
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# ? Jun 27, 2022 23:31 |
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Phy posted:Slug with eyestalk parasites? hosed up caterpillar? I hate it. "The larva of Curetis acuta has a fluffy shape, but when it gets angry or surprised, it instantly pops out a pompon (?) From the two protrusions on its butt and swings it around. In addition, this pompon can be put out even in the state of the front pupa, which is the state. Pompon is too cute ~ ❤️ (But if you put it out too much, you will die, so be careful ❗️😱☠️ )"
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# ? Jun 28, 2022 01:10 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1414630015451353089
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# ? Jun 29, 2022 18:49 |
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# ? Jul 5, 2022 10:51 |
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I don't understand why the snake is saying "Fool"
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# ? Jul 5, 2022 23:39 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No Look for a familiar face! Also, another person behind this was in the Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
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# ? Jul 5, 2022 23:43 |
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Beachcomber posted:I don't understand why the snake is saying "Fool" The snake is relentlessly self critical
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# ? Jul 6, 2022 00:20 |
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Deketh posted:The snake is relentlessly self critical (sorry)
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# ? Jul 6, 2022 01:01 |
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https://twitter.com/HarryAlisavakis/status/1545734124656279553
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# ? Jul 10, 2022 11:57 |
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# ? Jul 10, 2022 17:15 |
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Kenshi has gone too far
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# ? Jul 10, 2022 23:32 |
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That's the second time I've seen that pic pop up on SA and I still don't get it
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# ? Jul 10, 2022 23:48 |
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Hyperlynx posted:That's the second time I've seen that pic pop up on SA and I still don't get it I'm a jeep I don't get it either
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# ? Jul 10, 2022 23:50 |
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Hyperlynx posted:That's the second time I've seen that pic pop up on SA and I still don't get it Beep Beep, Bop Bop? I got nothing either.
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# ? Jul 10, 2022 23:51 |
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I actually think BEEP BEEP is plenty funny but I think people are reading it as beej
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 03:14 |
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I just assumed it was a goon discovering air fresheners for the first time
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 04:19 |
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Beep beep beep bop bop
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 05:24 |
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I think it's that the can of air freshener, which you would just spray openly into the air in your room, looks fairly similar to the can of disinfectant, which you really shouldn't do that with?
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 09:45 |
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Hyperlynx posted:That's the second time I've seen that pic pop up on SA and I still don't get it BASICA was released in 1981, there is no BASICA 75.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 10:53 |
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Hyperlynx posted:That's the second time I've seen that pic pop up on SA and I still don't get it I just liked BEEP BEEP BEEP BOP BOP.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 11:52 |
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Hirayuki posted:Wow, really? I took this one myself on Saturday. Oh! Fair enough. I thought that was pretty good too, I just though I was missing something more.
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https://i.imgur.com/Lbw0qup.mp4
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